Specific Quotes
1077 quotes by 928 authors
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Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating,…
— Edmund White
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Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Decision making is the specific executive task.
— Peter Drucker
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On a specific day marked on the earth's calendar, and in a specific place on the earth's map, the Son of God came to the…
— Billy Graham
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Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class…
— Bell Hooks
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There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket…
— Alan Watts
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To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity.
— Donald Trump
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I think it's very natural to get nervous. I've usually got concerns about a specific thing in the opening which might worry me. I have…
— Judit Polgar
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Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving…
— Richard G. Scott
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You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you…
— Pope Francis
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The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.
— Jeff Cooper
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
— Yahoo Serious
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As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness.
— Winston Smith
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Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.
— Peter Drucker
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Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific…
— Sakyong Mipham
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Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.
— T. B. Joshua
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I always take an aspect between the ruling planets (i.e., the rulers of their Ascendants) as a testimony to the fact that the two people…
— Stephen Arroyo
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
— Jerry Bridges
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It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people…
— Michael Shannon
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
— Kris Allen
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